From the wild 750 Record Bertone to the Lancia 037 Group B, we explore Abarth's greatest hits at the FCA Heritage Hub - TeamAbarth
must be truly special – and there’s little doubt it’s this car, among all others produced by Abarth over the years, that is still most closely associated with the brand.
The dynamic has changed somewhat – there can’t be too many people taking their vintage, pristine Italian city cars to the racetrack these days – but period modifications don’t get more authentic than this. This was proven at Monza on 17 and 18 June 1956, when drivers Remo Cattini, Umberto Maglioli, Mario Poltronieri and Alfonso Thiele completed 3743.642km at an average speed of 155.985kph, a shade under 97mph.
There’s a good case to be made for most of the top-tier cars that won in period, and pretty good arguments even for some of those that never made it beyond the prototype stage, but it’s not hard to imagine Lancia’s 037 topping a few lists. It also sits in a tubular subframe, with another up front, from which incredibly thin bodywork was hung to keep weight to an absolute minimum – as little as 960kg in competition trim. That, and the car’s wide and low stance, were the source of its speed, making up in agility and balance what it lost to others through power or traction.
Abarth’s engineers then tackled the engine, a 2-litre in-line four with an aluminium twin-cam head, 16 valves, and either Kugelfischer mechanical injection in rally models or twin Weber carburettors in the road car. The latter made 138bhp but the rally variants were seriously potent for the time, making up to 242bhp as the car was developed further.
In early 2008 a new Abarth 500 was revealed. Painted white, with retro red stripes, a deep bodykit and distinctive alloy wheels, it packed a 133bhp, 1.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder. OK, so it wasn’t in the back like with Abarths of old, but this was a proper Italian hot hatchback, and the perfect rival to Mini’s contemporary Cooper.
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